I opened my email this morning to read my daily updates from the Detroit "News" and see that "Michigan Senators" have decided to get into the BCS debate.
I don't even NEED to read past the headlines to know that this is going to be a disaster. Michigan fans are already being pasted in the national media for whining, and now our politicians are going to get involved.
Can you say, "Dead Horse"? How about "Hypocrite"? How about, "Just stick with what you know: ruining the country"?
I mean, I know there is all this nagging stuff like taxes, unemployment, businesses dying, people leaving the state in droves, horrible schools, and crime, but HEY! LET'S TALK FOOTBALL!
This is not going to be good, and I can't even BEGIN to think of anything funny to say about it: It stands on it's own.[smilie=beat_deadho:

Here's the article and the bill:

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061208/SPORTS02/612080324/1004/SPORTS
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(15ibey3ccb0jds45iu3goqm0))/mileg.aspx?page=getobject&objectname=2006-SR-0166&queryid=16059195

This goes to show you that the Michigan state legislature largely consists of a bunch of idiots. With the adoption of term limits and our almost-total inability to vote against an incumbent, we ensure a steady stream of idiocy. Aren't you glad to know that these fuckers gave themselves a 40% raise while in office?

I was working in a bank in Michigan once.
I decided to give myself a 40% "raise" one day.
I just got out of prison.

These guys voted for their 40% pay raise earlier this year, then they got re-elected in vast numbers. No challenger wanted to run on an "overpaid bums" platform when they were seeking, themselves, to be overpaid bums. The amount of news coverage this pay raise got during election time? Zippo.

"Of course, it's only a part-time job (especially in the case of the House), so a pay raise from ~$80k to ~$115k shouldn't be too big a deal, should it? And we're going to editorially suck their dicks anyway..."